Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 May 1996 17:27:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Taner Halicioglu <> | Subject | Re: Possible /etc/kernel.conf? |
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Shinanyaku wrote: > > > > > You know. If a /proc/config existed, it could be used during kernel > > > configuration also. An autoconfig would be only a script away. > > > > Well, it would be nice to have an /etc/kernel.conf file, actually. I'm not > > sure how useful /proc/config would be, but it would be logical to make > > > No, a _file_ /etc/kernel.conf is IMO a bad idea. Those who really need to know how a kernel > was built usually have more than one kernel to boot, so this information must > be stored _in_ the kernel image.
Quite true... There really should be a /proc/config, IMHO. I wanted to check if I had enabled IP Forwarding on one of my machines the other day, and since I had compiled the kernel on another machine (and long since blown away the source tree) I had to just recompile a kernel.
How hard would something like this be?
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